INTERNATIONAL
CONTENTS:
- Naming Conventions and Name Order
- What Do I Call You?
- Japanese Name Gender Finder
- Japanese Name Guide
NAMING CONVENTIONS AND NAME ORDER
Many a research task begins with, well, research. There are few finer places to begin that research nowadays than Wikipedia. Here you'll find a great collection of articles about naming conventions around the world. Scroll down the page until you reach Naming Conventions. The hot links will take you to articles about the ways individuals are named in more than a dozen countries. Next, review the article on Name Order. There are interesting tips about what happens to name order when an Eastern name meets Western culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name
The University of South Australia created a thoughtful Web page to educate students and others about naming conventions for the many students from Asia who now study in Australia.
http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/learningconnection/student/international/callyou.asp
Discovering the gender of a constituent from another country can be difficult. Use this site to identify the gender of Japanese constituents with traditional names. This is a home-grown page, so one of your tasks will be to evaluate its usefulness to you, if you have many Japanese names in your donor pool.
http://epublishing.nademoya.biz/japan/names_in_japan.php
One of the most useful bits at this site might be the Common Surnames of Japan page, where names are organized by prefecture. The page is a translation of another page, one that is written in Japanese. For the common surnames list, go to
http://www.rootsweb.com/~jpnwgw/Names.html
There are useful tips on name order, family names and forms of address on the home page.
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2271.html
Cecilia Hogan
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